Search Results by tag: Kids Can Press

Annick to offer digital versions of classic titles by Munsch, Schwartz

Annick Press has partnered with Open Road Integrated Media to produce digital versions of 34 illustrated children's titles. The U.S. digital publishing and multimedia outfit will publish and market electronic versions of classic Annick titles ... Read More »

March 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Q&A with art star and kidlit up-and-comer CybÃ¨le Young

By Leah Sandals

CybÃ¨le Young may have seemed like an overnight kidlit success when her most recent picture book, Ten Birds (Kids Can Press), won a Governor General's Literary Award last fall, but the Toronto-based artist actually began ... Read More »

March 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book trailer spotlight: Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault’s Virginia Wolf

By Sue Carter

This lovely book trailer for Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault's picture book,Virginia Wolf (Kids Can Press), combines Arsenault's gorgeous ... Read More »

February 24, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Erin Bow’s Plain Kate wins TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

By Sue Carter

Erin Bow has won this year's TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for her historical fantasy YA novel Plain Kate, published by Scholastic Canada. Bow received her $25,000 prize at a gala event in Toronto last ... Read More »

October 5, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

Ninja Cowboy Bear heads to Japan for children affected by the tsunami

By Sue Carter

In an effort to help children affected by last March's earthquake and tsunami in Japan, on July 15, representatives from the Canadian embassy will read from The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear (Kids Can Press) ... Read More »

July 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Way to Display! Franklin’s 25th at Mabel’s Fables

By Nathan Whitlock

Loveably imperfect, fundamentally decent, and slightly neurotic young animal characters are pretty thick on the ground these days, but one of the true originals, Franklin the turtle, turns 25 this year. To celebrate the 25th ... Read More »

March 9, 2011 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events

Might give teens violent ideas: the TPL’s 2010 list of challenged books

By Nathan Whitlock

Freedom to Read Week is a month away, but Toronto Public Library trustee Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler got a jump on the festivities today by releasing, on his Twitter feed, the 2010 report from the TPL's Materials ... Read More »

January 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Books of the Year 2010: Books for Young People

By Q&Q Staff

There's no formula for choosing the books of the year. Some break ground, some tackle familiar themes with new energy. Some represent the best work from established authors, some introduce us to important new voices. ... Read More »

November 24, 2010 | Filed under: Books of the Year

Way to Display! Up We Grow! at Kidsbooks

By Nathan Whitlock

It's the excess exclamation (excessclamation?) point edition of Way to Display! with this dandy garden-themed window for Up We Grow! (Kids Can Press) at Kidsbooks on Broadway in Vancouver! It's like the book is growing ... Read More »

August 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Events